A non-exhaustive list of personal (not too-personal, though) details:
Activities
Sometimes writing music .
Sometimes writing puzzles. (2021 2022 )
Reading.
E.g. Borges , Chiang , Nabokov , DFW , Calvino , Williams , Kafka , Mann , Svevo , Bernhard , DeWitt
E.g. Camus , Wittgenstein , Kripke , Rorty , Brandom
Playing Go (even though I’m bad)
Dislikes
Traveling (for the sake of tourism)
Posed photos
Consistent, direct sunlight (headaches)
Quirks
When eating peanuts, eating the whole shell, too.
I once inadvertently did (fashion ).
I have 3 lb of malic acid in my house at the time of creating this website.
Since 2015, I’ve journaled about each day’s events, unintentionally in the style of The Stranger .
I make an odd noise when I sneeze.
Preferred coding position: supine
I’ll accidentally choke on whatever I’m drinking if I’m not focused during that task.
I’m not able to physically sense if it’s humid or not. Like, we’ll walk outside and someone will say “Boy, it’s humid!” or “It’s so dry!” and I’ll just have to pretend like I’m sharing that perception to avoid a scene.
An idiosyncratic bowling form (video ).
Memory lane
High school graduation, hours before irreparably setting my arm on fire (2010)
Keeping in touch with high school people, one year later (2011)
Just a social fencer (2011)
Precursor to fashion exposé (2013)
Various online personalities (2011-2015)
At America's first karaoke bar (Dimples) shortly before it shut down (2014)
Last day working at Bayer Cropscience in Davis, CA (2014)
Reunion one year later at the lodge (2015)
Best German professor (2015)
Summer in Hamburg (German not needed) (2015)
Discovering whether or not I am capable of doing wet lab work (2015-2016)
Snowshoeing at least one of the alps (2016)
The reason to go to Trieste, Italy (2016)
The other reason to go to Trieste, Italy (2016)
Back in the US with new-Zach and baingan (2016)
Celebrating one Stanford quarter completed with Tom (2016)
Great birthday present from brother (2017)
Pair programming through grad school (2018)
Mom revisits Cuba for the first time (2018)
Month in Denmark to see PhD advisor (2018)
Closing deals for our startup (2018)
I didn't realize it was saffron that people added to rice to make it yellow (2018)
The intern crew at the company's Indian restaurant (2019)
Failing to make dosa (2019)
Favorite board game (2019)
Forming a bond with Cosmo (2019)
Thanksgiving tradition in Huntington Beach (2019)
Food tourism conclusion (2020)
Exercise + social distance (2020)
Working on pushup form in Moab (2020)
Failed Thanksgiving dessert: (oreo-based) gulab jamun (2020)
Failed Thanksgiving Sherlock: Consulting Detective mission (2020)
Hanabi with Liars Club crew (2020)
Vintage synthesize museum (2021)
First blog post and people checking in on me, having just moved to FL (2021)
Best paper award in Nantes, France (2022)
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